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Finally building my own (truggy) P4de!

I have been debating on what to do with all the extra slash 4x4 parts I have and after the release of the Proline Bulldog truggy body for the rustler I knew what I wanted to do. Then, seeing All Aluminum's thread I was further inspired and now it is time to start thinking about my build. I get off work on Wednesday (I work offshore) for two weeks and I will order the extra parts I need on Friday. I plan on using this truck for all around bashing and I will be taking it to track outings as well. I just got my order in of 4 Gens Ace 50c 5000mah 2s and 4 40c 5000mah 3s batteries in so I'm excited to try them out. So far I have these items in my slash 4x4 box and will be using them in my build:

These are the items that I need to order. If there are any suggestions feel free to let me know since I won't be ordering this stuff until Friday. I would like some input on what servo I should go with. I would like metal gears and not have to use an external bec.

well all the parts you have got are spot on.dont forget to put diff carrier supports in your diff to make them bullet proof.part no.5382x

Thanks man! I almost forgot about those

Originally Posted by all aluminum

Nice! The XO-1 parts are going to be sick, I wanted to go that route but it doesn't stretch to fit the Protrac suspension. Add some dye to your list and black out that chassis.

Edit: The FLM center diff upgrade is a must to keep the front end down on 3s.

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and I'm not running the protrac so that I can use the x0-1 gear! Rit dye will definitely be happening! I think I ran my Sl4sh's with a slipper for maybe two minutes before I switched to the center diffs. I love the difference they made

Originally Posted by TQi

Hey man what exactly does this do?

this was taken from my Sl4sh build:

Originally Posted by tbonemcniel

Brace

I got some news and I'll be staying at work on the boat for two more week so the build won't start till the 24th. I may be tempted to spend more money on this build since I'll be coming home with more money.

I've made some progress on the build. I have most of the truck together and the body is painted. I de annodized most of the aluminum. I'd like to go back and polish everything but no time at the present.

I finished up the truck before I left for work but only got about 10 minutes behind the wheel. I don't think it looks very truggy like except for the body. I still need to mount a wing but for now I'm using a slash 4x4 rear bumper. I also need to find some softer springs. Anyways here are the rest of the pics:
luckily my lhs had these!

I ordered the traxxas aluminum shock towers. Now I'll be able to drill holes for the wing mounts and finally mount the wing. I also ordered the Losi springs that All Aluminum is running. I have decided to switch the entire front and rear arms/cvds/carriers/knuckles with my Slash 4x4's protrac/mip/strc/beadlocks/reverse rear shocks setup. The track seems to narrow to be a truggy now so this will help. I'd like to also get some slash 2wd front offset proline beadlocks to further widen it. I'll be getting home from work on Wednesday so I should have updates next week!
here's the slash 4x4 for an idea of what's to come:

I flipped the shock tower mounting location, flipped the rear arms, drilled out the holes for the swaybars, moved the camber links to the other side of the carriers and shocktower and put everything together.

I finished up the truck before I left for work but only got about 10 minutes behind the wheel. I don't think it looks very truggy like except for the body. I still need to mount a wing but for now I'm using a slash 4x4 rear bumper. I also need to find some softer springs. Anyways here are the rest of the pics:
luckily my lhs had these!

I don't get off work till the 2nd of January so it will be next year sometime. I received a noticed that the body has shipped from Taiwan though. I'm thinking about ordering the 10tt wheels and tires too to really make it look like a 1/10 truggyhttp://www.ebay.com/itm/Hyper-TT10-C...81013818426%26

I've made some progress on the build. I have most of the truck together and the body is painted. I de annodized most of the aluminum. I'd like to go back and polish everything but no time at the present.

What are those shock tower and body mount. I have asked multiple times for the stuff to move all the body mounts into the center of a stampede to stop the ripping out of the fenders.

The shocktowers are RPM atm with the normal RPM body mounts in the front. In the rear I used one of the spacers that came with the rpm body mounts then drilled a hole in the center and countersunk it an RPM body mount on it. I flipped it over and screwed it to the mounting holes in the tower.

Well I finally started working on this thing again. I've taken the parts from my Slash off and I de-anodized the new parts. I hope to get this together tomorrow but I might be busy with Christmas stuff. My wife wrapped the 10tt body so that will wait.

Thanks! I got a lot of work done today. I got the body this morning and started test fitting. It didn't work out so well with the rear mounted shocks so I switched them to the front and found the body fit much better that way. I also decided that the wing mount needed to be higher than I had it.
I got this press for Christmas! I needed it to drill the holes in the shock towers for the wing mount.
This is with the rear shocks. the body has to be pulled back to far. It didn't look right and the front shocks rubbed

I'm so glad it's coming together! Next round of mods I want to get Stampede shock guards, tall battery mount, rear bumper, VXL decal sheet, zip up shroud, losi 8e wing mount, trencher x (the new short course tires for the beadlock rims), rpm or tbone front bumper and I then I can call this build complete!...until I see an lcg chassis for stampede. I know that chuckswork has one but I've tried his stuff on my Sl2sh and Sl4sh and I wasn't happy with it.

And the finished (for now) product. I have Sl2sh front offset on the back and normal up front. I can't decide which to get another pair of to match.

I think that if these were my only two RC's I would be completely content

Update: I got some gift certificates to a couple of hobby stores for Christmas and my birthday (12/28) so I picked up some items from the list of stuff I want for this truck including front offset Trenchers, front and rear arm guards, rear stock pumper and front RPM bumper.

I de-anodized the 3800 to match everything else. I also did the Savox servo as well.

I found out quickly that 2s is not enough for me. Instead of buying the taller battery mounts I saw these Tekno velcro straps on sale and go those instead. I'm just running one now. the two center ones are two long for the batteries I'm using.

I forgot to mention that I took the wheels from the wheelie bar and put them right on the bumper

both Stampedes!

So now the only thing left that I want for this build is a outerwearz shroud, new wing mount, another hyper10t body and the hyper 10t wheels/tires for track use. I also need to replace the fan on the esc since one of the leads broke off.